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gwydion* Nelson Mandela has been in ICU three days with a lung infection.
* Bosnia a generation after: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22837900
* They are closing nearly 10% of Philadelphia schools, causing massive over crowding for next year because Republicans chose to build a $400 million prison. The schools they are closing would cost a fraction of that. 81% of the students losing their schools are black and 93% are poor. They are specifically targeting schools with high graduation rates in black neighborhoods. After all, if you dismantle public schools to build prisons, the school to prison pipeline is that much easier as is the Republican plan to take the right to vote away from black and poor citizens. They are also massively firing teachers in the hopes of breaking the teacher's union and further dismantling the middle class, which is also an important ideological goal. As with Chicago, this is clearly a choice to use a manufactured crisis to destroy the public school system because rich Republicans have a vested interest in maintaining a permanent underclass.:
* I think Chris Hayes and Bernie Sanders are asking a lot of the right questions about the Snowden revelations about NSA spying:
* Speculation that Schizophrenia may be a virus: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus#.UbWrSpyjL43
* Speculation about Australopithecus' diet: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187559098/grass-it-s-what-s-for-dinner-3-5-million-years-ago?sc=17&f=1007
* "Neanderthal clues to cancer origins:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22780717
* "George Zimmerman Trial Starts Today:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/george-zimmerman-trial-starts-today.html
* "Two Trans Murder Trials Start Today:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-trans-murder-trials-start-today.html
* "Trans Rights Bill Passes Delaware Senate:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/trans-rights-bill-passes-delaware-senate.html
* "GENDA Stalled In NY Senate Again-What's Up With That?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/genda-stalled-in-ny-senate-again-whats.html
* "Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/biblical-marriage-iowa-scholars-op-ed_n_3397304.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
* A rebuttal to sexist folks at the SFWA. "So, Where Are the Outstanding Women in X?:" http://www.starshipreckless.com/blog/?p=8250
* "Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count:" http://www.juancole.com/2013/06/corporations-amendment-fundamentalists.html
* "Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show:" http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/civil-disobedience-on-a-turkish-game-show/?ref=world
* "Happy Birthday Triple J:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/06/happy-birthday-triple-j.html
* The Clutch:
* Bosnia a generation after: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22837900
* They are closing nearly 10% of Philadelphia schools, causing massive over crowding for next year because Republicans chose to build a $400 million prison. The schools they are closing would cost a fraction of that. 81% of the students losing their schools are black and 93% are poor. They are specifically targeting schools with high graduation rates in black neighborhoods. After all, if you dismantle public schools to build prisons, the school to prison pipeline is that much easier as is the Republican plan to take the right to vote away from black and poor citizens. They are also massively firing teachers in the hopes of breaking the teacher's union and further dismantling the middle class, which is also an important ideological goal. As with Chicago, this is clearly a choice to use a manufactured crisis to destroy the public school system because rich Republicans have a vested interest in maintaining a permanent underclass.:
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* I think Chris Hayes and Bernie Sanders are asking a lot of the right questions about the Snowden revelations about NSA spying:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Speculation that Schizophrenia may be a virus: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus#.UbWrSpyjL43
* Speculation about Australopithecus' diet: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187559098/grass-it-s-what-s-for-dinner-3-5-million-years-ago?sc=17&f=1007
* "Neanderthal clues to cancer origins:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22780717
* "George Zimmerman Trial Starts Today:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/george-zimmerman-trial-starts-today.html
* "Two Trans Murder Trials Start Today:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/two-trans-murder-trials-start-today.html
* "Trans Rights Bill Passes Delaware Senate:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/trans-rights-bill-passes-delaware-senate.html
* "GENDA Stalled In NY Senate Again-What's Up With That?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/genda-stalled-in-ny-senate-again-whats.html
* "Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/biblical-marriage-iowa-scholars-op-ed_n_3397304.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
* A rebuttal to sexist folks at the SFWA. "So, Where Are the Outstanding Women in X?:" http://www.starshipreckless.com/blog/?p=8250
* "Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count:" http://www.juancole.com/2013/06/corporations-amendment-fundamentalists.html
* "Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show:" http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/civil-disobedience-on-a-turkish-game-show/?ref=world
* "Happy Birthday Triple J:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/06/happy-birthday-triple-j.html
* The Clutch: